4994: importlib-metadata requirements is too strict

marcel 
The importlib-metadata requirements in setup.py is too strict:


install_requires=[
    'importlib-metadata~=4.12; python_version < "3.10"',



I suggest to change it to read:


install_requires=[
    'importlib-metadata>=4.12; python_version < "3.10"',





Simply replacing ~= by >=.


I believe there is no reason to be so strict.  The current version of importlib-metadata is 6.0.0: https://pypi.org/project/importlib-metadata/